Cobain
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 20 babies a year in the US.
Cobain by the numbers
Cobain was given to 20 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Cobain
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cobain. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Cobanshepherd3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Colinyoung warrior; a form of Caoilean1,662 in the US (2017)
- Corbinraven; from corvus1,434 in the US (2017)
- Collinyoung warrior; variant of colin or caitlin997 in the US (2017)
- Corbanoffering or gift to god89 in the US (2017)
- Coltincoal town; a variant of Colton39 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Cobain
Names that are said the same way as Cobain, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Cobain
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